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Patented Mar. 28, |899.

H. E. COOMBS.

No. 62|,96o.

G A M E (Application led Dec. 10, 1897.)

(No Model.)

f 7m e @if UNITED .STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARRY E. COOMBS, OF KINGSTON, NEW YORK.

GAME.

SPECIFICATION fOImii/lg part f Letters Patent NO. 621,960, dated March28, 1899.

Application filed December 10, 1897. Serial No. 6611377 (N0 111011610 T0all whom/ t may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY E. CooMBs, a citizen 0f the United States,residing at Kingston, in the county of Ulster and State otNeW York, haveinvented a new and original Game called Mitrelude, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

The invention consists of a board with edge [langes having a raisedsurface Witha recess in the center thereof and a series of elongatedprojections arranged a distance from the cena disk which may be used inthe game.

The board, which is of preferably rectangular form and is provided witha surrounding flange, (indicated by letters,) has a raised centralportionyin the center of which is a recess 1. Extending from the raisedsurface of the board .at a distance from the central recess are a seriesof elongated projections 2, 3, 4, and 5, which form rebounding-surfaces,as will be hereinafter described. Four of these projections are used,and they are set alternately at right angles to each other. Disks 6 orthe like are used in playing the game, and they are shot against one ofthe projections by means of a shooter similar to that shown in Figs. 4and 5, or by a iillip movement of the finger at such an inclination inrelation to one of the projections that they will rebound therefrom andenter the recess 1. By placing the projections at different angles oralong different lines in relation to the recess 1 the number ofpositions from which the disk may be shot to strike one of theprojections at such an angle that the rebound Will send it in or in thedirection of the recess is increased.

The projections are not intended to act as guards to the recess topreventa disk or the like shot directly at the same from reaching itsdestination, but only as rebounding-surfaces.

The shooter illustrated herein comprises a cylinder t and a piston b forstriking the disks guided therein provided with an enlarged head, whichis normally held pressed against the end of the cylinder by an elasticcord c.

1. The combination with a game-board having edge flanges and a centralraised portion with a recess therein, of a series of elongatedprojecting surfaces arranged a distance from said recess to leave aspace between the same and the projections for the movements of theplaying-disks, said projections extending in a tangential direction inrelation to said recess, said projections being adapted to act asrebounding-surfaces.

2. The combination wit-ha game-board hav'- ing edge flanges and acentral raised portion with a recess therein of a series of elongatedprojections extendingffrom said raised portion, each projection beingarranged at right angles to the contiguous projections With its centralportion opposite the end of one of said vcontiguous projections and itsend opposite the central portion of the other contiguous projection,substantially as described.

HARRY E. COOMBS.

In presence of- DE WITT RoosA, WILBUR L. HALE.

